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emerge, when labor forces change according to the 2007 UN population projections. It finds that demographic factors are no … with the yen carry-trade; and that China is key to understanding Asia's demographic impact on the world. It also finds that … Asia offers the greatest arbitrage opportunities worldwide during the demographic transition and has the greatest potential …
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In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
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This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...
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This Selected Issues paper on the United States examines the effect of the structure of the mortgage market on real housing activity and housing prices. The market-based financial structure has reduced the volatility of mortgage lending. Changes in the structure of the mortgage market have...
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neoclassical growth model with time-varying frictions (wedges). We analyze the relative importance of efficiency, labor, investment … the efficiency and labor wedges have had the greatest impact. We also compare our results with existing studies on …
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The obstacles to economic growth in Mongolia are modeled with a supply-side growth model calibrated to represent inefficient use of resources and intermediation. Progressive removal of inefficiencies over time by means of privatization of banks and industrial enterprises potentially leads to...
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Traditionally, the impacts of the rights of financial institutions and workers on corporate performance have been analyzed independently. Yet, theory clearly indicates that the combination of relative powers of different stakeholders affects a firm overall performance. Using U.S. state level and...
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